US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

the convention hasn't happened, yet, so there's still some hope, but conventions have been heavily scripted events and can't turn on a dime to accommodate a different script. if it's Biden we get, then I'll dutifully vote for him, but if he digs in and stays in he fucking well better win in November. another Trump term would wreck what little is left is still functional in our federal government and fly it right into the mountainside.

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Thank you. I will never understand why Democrats are so scared to make enemies. I guess they think they might win Republican votes, so they don’t want to piss them off? But you define yourself by who you are fighting against. Somebody has to lose. Politics is about choices, and power, and who wins and who loses. You have to be willing to point the finger and say these guys over here have been getting away with too much for too long. How about this, how about instead of winning votes from Republicans by acting like a Republican, you make them ashamed of having anything to do with Republicans. So they no longer want to identify that way. There’s more then one way to skin a cat and some are more cowardly than others

As we know from Republicans, they not only skin the cat they grab the p-----

I will never understand why Democrats are so scared to make enemies.

Yeah I feel like my entire adult political life has been defined by Democrats being afraid that someone's going to call them communists or socialists or even *gasp* liberals. Then you back to FDR and he's like "come at me motherfuckers."

In this thread alone, one former ilxor kept saying we shouldn't impeach Trump cos Republicans would retaliate against civilians

Well not this months it was years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

That’s it imo. He’s the nominee.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 July 2024 17:06 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have to say, Sanders is so much more eloquent when he's defending Biden than Biden is when he's defending himself.

is this real or am i too tired to spot the joke?

Shooting just happened at The Trump rally pic.twitter.com/Xs1dVL1H3T

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 13, 2024

It's real. He got shot in the ear.

TRUMP GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD AND GOT STRAIGHT UP!! pic.twitter.com/yvDl2wGYuz

— Pubity (@pubity) July 13, 2024

awesome, all the people who'd normally be calling "false flag" will be saying it definitely wasn't a false flag

Predictably, a Dem in one of my groups has already posted TRUMP GOT SHOT WE'VE LOST THE ELECTION

Libs gonna freak out now and say it was staged to win him votes.

I say "hey even the first airplane didn't take off"

Lol xpost Alfred

Jeez he's actually bleeding. wtf.

once again a Democrat fails to deliver meaningful change

xps - The basic reason Democrats are afraid someone's going to call them communists is simple enough. Anti-communist propaganda has been a steady drumbeat since 1946 and it's rooted deep in the American psyche by now. Red-baiting has been consistently winning strategy whenever the label was successfully pinned onto the opponent. Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas was the archetype for that. "Communist" is never going to be reclaimed as a positive descriptor here.

The shying away from "liberal" mainly dates to when Reagan's popularity and the resurgence of the Republican party so soon after Watergate frightened the Democrats right down to their livers. Ironically, "liberal" is equally a term of abuse from the left, too, but that started long before Reagan.

The center-left are all progressives now.

If the shot doesn’t win him the election the fist pump right after will.

oh FFS

Well, not to distract from the news of the moment, which is obviously going to dominate the next news cycle, but this thread from a Palestinian-American Georgia state rep is instructive.

For those new here, I'm going to lay out why it's not just polls that have me nervous. In 2020, I got laughed out of a meeting for saying Georgia would turn blue, and we'd win two senate seats. I was so sure because I was canvassing in one of the reddest counties in the state. 1/

— Rep. Ruwa Romman (@Ruwa4Georgia) July 13, 2024

as we speak at least 30 guys are racing to pitch their Dead Zone remake

If the shot doesn’t win him the election the fist pump right after will.

― Chris L, Saturday, July 13, 2024

The independents who've hated his guts will suddenly rally to him? lol

Will someone please help Hinckley with accuracy this is getting ridiculous now

the fuck they shoot him with, a Red Ryder BB gun?

Jeez he's actually bleeding. wtf.

Pure WWF. When he dropped to the ground, out of sight of the camera, he popped a blood bag on the side of his face and was ready for his close-up.

Hopefully he'll contract MRSA in the hospital

https://i.ibb.co/FbjLD99/Screenshot-2024-07-13-234357.png

Is there anything in the constitution that prevents a spice mix from holding office?

Pure WWF. When he dropped to the ground, out of sight of the camera, he popped a blood bag on the side of his face and was ready for his close-up.

yeah the secret service guy taking out the shooter with a steel chair was a bit of a giveaway

He should be shot and often by someone who knows how

Left Twitter appears to be completely convinced that the election is over and he’s going to win in a historic landslide.

What was I saying, something about the benefits of it being known that you have enemies?

The time to pull a false flag stuff like this would be a couple days before the election, not the middle of July, but these guys aren't too bright.

Funny how libs are convinced the shooting is what will do it and continue to simultaneously insist the polls are fake

I also remember how George Wallace won the '72 election

It'd be better to do it after winning as a pretext to consolidate power. A la the Reich

Personally I wouldn’t dismiss the idea that an event that fires up his support will have an impact on the election (while 75% of Biden’s supporters want him to step away). But I haven’t properly divined which media sources are rigging polls and trying to take out Joe.

How could his support be more fired up than they already are? Are thy going to vote harder?

I’m sure there won’t be any conspiracy theories about this

Remember when Trump faked having COVID and survived and then won by a landslide in 2020 cos all voters finally saw COVID was a sham

yeah all those independents who hated his guts will suddenly vote for him out of sympathy?

More money given for ads, more psychos doing a bit of freelance voter intimidation, more just showing up to vote in general. Little things.

The footage,like the mugshot, makes him look badass.

Idk I prefer to think about the things that are real and actively already costing Biden the election

how the fuck do you miss from there

/euro thread cross post

LMAO

Doomcasting is a universal epidemic like gun violence

More money given for ads

I haven't seen a single Trump ad this year. I've seen tons of ads about what a piece of shit Tim Sheehy is; it's all I get on YouTube. But zero pro-Trump shit.

more psychos doing a bit of freelance voter intimidation

You can try that shit, but the old ladies running the polling places will kick your ass. And when they're done, they'll call your mother and tell her to come get you.

more just showing up to vote in general

Nah. He's got every single remaining member of his cult already on board, and he's not winning anyone over with this bullshit.

The footage,like the mugshot, makes him look badass.

Jesus, you're such a mark.